Luke Harding

Dynamic and Diagnostic Language Assessment How can assessment shed light on learners’ current abilities and help chart a path for their continued development? Dynamic assessment and diagnostic language assessment are both now well established ...

The edited volume that #DD-Lang team members and a large number of authors worked on is finally out in #openaccess: doi.org/10.1515/9783...
Across its 11 chapters, we build argument for the potential of bringing together #L2 #dynamic and #diagnostic #assessment – one of the goals of DD-Lang

Congrats to guest editors Eunice Jang, Yasuyo Sawski & all authors on this blockbuster issue of #LanguageTesting on the AI revolution! It’s a hefty issue with 7 articles, an opening Editorial & an insightful post-script by @lukeharding.bsky.social. Now out here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/LTJ/curr...

Language Testing Volume 42 Issue 4 is now available! The Special Issue of 2025: Advancing language assessment for teaching and learning in the era of the artificial intelligence #AI revolution: Promises and challenges journals.sagepub.com/toc/ltja/42/4

UKRI announces winners of £120 million Future Leaders Fellowships Research into the causes of lung cancer and Alzheimer’s disease are among 77 projects to be funded by UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellowships.

I am so pleased to announce that I have been awarded a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an... to undertake the project 'A Multi-Dimensional Understanding of the Digital Far Right'.

I am seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the ESRC-funded project 'Writing Tasks at School and University'.
The post is full-time and will run from 1st November 2025 to 31st January 2029. See below for a brief overview of the project.
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

lancasteruniversity: Corpus linguistics and new technologies: data, language and society | edX In an era of AI and big data, understanding language through data is essential. This hands-on course from Lancaster University—a global leader in corpus linguistics—teaches you to build, query, and an...

Designed for the AI age, our new online course teaches real-world language analysis from one of the world’s leading corpus linguistics teams.

Watch the trailer and sign up: www.edx.org/learn/social...

💡Highlights from Tuesday afternoon at #LancsSS25 with talks from @lukeharding.bsky.social on validity, AI and language testing & @jculpeper.bsky.social on using corpora to get an insight into Shakespeare’s language.

Once a year we take our @lancslinguistics.bsky.social MA students for a trip to the Lakes that involves a little hiking, a little climbing, a little caving and a little ice cream. Once again we were incredibly lucky with the weather and everyone had a great day out and a day off from dissertations.

We had a super day yesterday at the @lancslinguistics.bsky.social Research Colloquium with colleagues sharing a diverse range of research conducted in connection with Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster.

We are delighted to announce the 19th LAEL Postgraduate Conference, which will take place 19-20 June 2025. More info at: wp.lancs.ac.uk/laelpgconfer...

A group of 10 colleagues in a room. Most of us are wearing red Lancaster Phonetics Lab t-shirts. I am holding an ultrasound probe and Sam Kirkham is holding a nasalance device.

We had a brilliant time at Lancaster University's public engagement festival, Campus in the City, yesterday! We engaged with 260 people in Morecambe with ultrasound, nasalance, accent quizzes, gender and language, and a grammar escape room! @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @phoneticslab.bsky.social

We are excited to be at Campus in the City this week!

❗️Come and see a wide range of activities, from a language escape game to ultrasound imaging of the tongue during beatboxing!

➡️ Fri 11 April at More Music in Morecambe

#sparkyourcuriosity #CITC2025

Four honorary doctors and the Rektor on stage at Aalborg University

I am deeply grateful to Aalborg University for a doctorate honoris causa and wonderful hospitality this week. Looking forward to collaborations with the Communication, Language and Discourse Research Group.

An image displaying the ranking of Lancaster's Linguistics department as 3rd in the world by the QS World Subject Rankings 2025.

We are delighted to have been ranked 3rd in the world for Linguistics by the QS World Subject Rankings 2025!

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Future of English Research Forum Find out more about the Future of English Research Forum 2025 for insights and discussions on international English language research.

CRELLA is delighted to host and present at the 3rd Future of English Research Forum by the British Council on Thu 6 and Fri 7 March 2025. Register for online participation at: futureofenglish.britishcouncil.org/insights/res...

Linguistics Career Launch - From coursework to career

www.linguisticscareerlaunch.com has some great information about careers outside of academia for linguists - very much relevant for #appliedlinguistics, too.

The power of the point: The science of Donald Trump's gestures Ever noticed Donald Trump's frequent pointing? A new linguistic study reveals it's not just random.

My study of pointing gestures in the spoken performance of Trump has been picked by @psypost.bsky.social. You can read Eric Dolan's excellent piece on the research here: www.psypost.org/the-power-of...

Applications are now open for our new summer school in 'Corpus Linguistics for Language Testing and Assessment' offered as part of our free annual Lancaster Summer Schools series.

16-20 June 2025, Lancaster University

Find out more: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer...

Language, Image, Gesture Cambridge Core - Cognitive Linguistics - Language, Image, Gesture

I think my new book Language, Image, Gesture: The Cognitive Semiotics of Politics might (finally!) have been published. Currently only in digital format with print copies available from Feb. www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

Call for Papers: Applied Corpus Linguistics special issue on corpus research into children's writing.

For details, see phildurrant.net/special-issu...

If you are interested in contributing, please send a 300-word abstract to me (p.l.durrant@exeter.ac.uk) by 31 January.

We had a wonderful time at graduation last week, where MA and PhD students from the department graduated. Adrian Hemler was awarded the Geoffrey Leech prize for highest overall MA mark.

Congratulations to all! 🎉

Dimension-based comparative judgements. This study proposes a new criteria-based method for conducting comparative judgements (CJ). doi.org/10.1177/0265...

Staff from @lancslinguistics.bsky.social ready for graduation

Well worth reading by @danijelatrenkic.bsky.social summarising her work on this issue. As well as score entry requirements, the story raises questions about whether language tests are doing a good enough job of capturing the complex construct of academic language proficiency in their tasks/content.

Congratulations!

It was great to catch up with @lancslinguistics.bsky.social past and present students (and staff) at Language Testing Forum 2024 #UKALTA

Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University is now on Bluesky. Follow us here: @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

I was very happy to be included in this webinar to talk about our new MA in Intercultural Business Communication and give a taster lecture. The recording will be available soon. Many thanks to everyone who attended and the colleagues who set it up.

Scaling laws for nonlinear dynamical models of speech The addition of a nonlinear restoring force to dynamical models of the speech gesture significantly improves the empirical accuracy of model predictions, but nonlinearity introduces challenges in sele...

Hello Bluesky!

I will celebrate my arrival by sharing my new pre-print on "Scaling laws for nonlinear dynamical models of speech"

arxiv.org/abs/2411.12720